Tina Noonan’s The Island ticks far too many boxes in tale of childhood trauma

Theatre

Laurence Lowry, Conor Donelan, Owen O’Gorman and Pádraig Murray in 'The Island'. Photo: Al Craig

Emer O'Kelly

There is a play to be written about the anguish and desolation inflicted on children by the crime of child molestation. There are a hundred plays to be written about it. And every human instinct in us cries out to see them, reflect on them, and weep for the characters on stage as the scar splits open to reveal the raw tormented flesh of the still livid wound.

Society must never forget; it is never “time to move on” as so many of the smugly pious within society suggested when the outrages first emerged into public consciousness.